And it all started with a lyric left behind by a rock music critic.
In an interview with Songfacts, Blue Öyster Cult singer and guitarist Buck Dharma looked back on the songwriting experience.
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“Richard would write on a typewriter and we’d have sheets of lyrics and on the page and it would look just look like poetry with a lot of lower case and free form, free association,” Dharma recalled in an interview published by the Herald Tribune. “I don’t know how long I’d had his lyric, but it was about 1980 and we’d moved to Connecticut.”
“After ‘[Don’t Fear] The Reaper’ was a hit, the band was under commercial pressure to have more,” he revealed. “The lyric on ['Burnin' for You'] was written by Richard Meltzer. I think that's probably his most sentimental lyric. He's not a very sentimental person, so for him to write an actual thoughtful and sentimental lyric is kind of funny. Although it's still classic Meltzer with the lines like, 'Time to play B-sides.' Which you're not gonna hear in your average tune.”
In an interview with Classic Bands, former Blue Öyster Cult bass player Joe Bouchard noted that the band wasn’t normally known for making music videos.
Still, Dharma recalled having fun during the day-long video shoot.
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